For previous Foxconn entries, see #1, #2, and #3. All these are offered as look at a generally closed place that looms large in the American imagination about working conditions in China.
Screening job applicants. A room on the main Foxconn site where applicants fill out forms, take tests, and so on.
Applicants. People filling out those forms.
New worker indoctrination. A class of people who have just been hired listen to lectures about pay and overtime policies, vacation schedules, seniority rules, and so on.
'Foxconn University' The sign outside this building.
Shopping. This is not directly connected to recruiting, but it was in the same general area of the site. It's an outlet for eFeihu, or "Flying Tiger," a Foxconn-run e-commerce company. The people inside, Foxconn workers on break, were checking out various phones and cameras. Weirdo touch: the orange and black decorations are cut-paper images of jack-o-lanterns, and the white things are Halloween skeletons.
And just for the hell of it, here is the building where Foxconn's founder and CEO, Terry Gou, works.
More ahead.
Screening job applicants. A room on the main Foxconn site where applicants fill out forms, take tests, and so on.
Applicants. People filling out those forms.
New worker indoctrination. A class of people who have just been hired listen to lectures about pay and overtime policies, vacation schedules, seniority rules, and so on.
'Foxconn University' The sign outside this building.
Shopping. This is not directly connected to recruiting, but it was in the same general area of the site. It's an outlet for eFeihu, or "Flying Tiger," a Foxconn-run e-commerce company. The people inside, Foxconn workers on break, were checking out various phones and cameras. Weirdo touch: the orange and black decorations are cut-paper images of jack-o-lanterns, and the white things are Halloween skeletons.
And just for the hell of it, here is the building where Foxconn's founder and CEO, Terry Gou, works.
More ahead.